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Listening:Gratitude:Punishment:Smile:Losing:Love.
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"Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.." -Lewis Thomas-
"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.".-Brendan Francis-
"Advertising is the very essence of democracy.".-Bruce Barton-
"Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.".-Mark Twain
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"Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them to be wise... specialized competence and success are all that they can imagine.".-Allan Bloom-
"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.".-Napoleon Bonaparte-
"Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.".-Douglas William Jerrold-
"The dynamics of capitalism is postponement of enjoyment to the constantly postponed future.".-Norman O. Brown-
"The truth has a million faces, but there is only one truth.".-Hermann Hesse-
"One can never pay in gratitude;one can only pay ''in kind'' somewhere else in life.".-Anne Morrow Lindbergh-
"Gratitude is a twofold love - love coming to visit us, and love running out to greet a welcome guest.".-Henry van Dyke-
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.".-Aristotle-
"Failure is not our only punishment for laziness;there is also the success of others.".-Jules Renard-
"Most smiles are started by another smile.".-Frank A. Clark-
"We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than".-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin-
"This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man;for a single man ca".-Henry David Thoreau-
"If you can accept losing you can't win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.".-Vince Lombardi-
"To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.".-Henry Ward Beecher-
"Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, ''Shake well before using.'' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.".-Vance Havner-
"The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.".-Les Brown-
"The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.".-Vic Braden-
"Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.".-Leonard Cohen-
"We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.".-Aesop-
"Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.".-David Hume-
"A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and the more extended the range of its applicability.".-Albert Einstein-
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.".-Henry James-
"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.".-Anatole France-
"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.".-Allen Ginsberg-
"A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.".-Mark Twain-
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"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.." -Lillian Smith-
"What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.".-Chief Seattle-
"As a profession advertising is young;as a force it is as old as the world. The first four words ever uttered, Let there be light, constitute its charter. All nature is vibrant with its impulse.".-Bruce Barton-
"The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by Gobbles and debased by advertising copy, remains a force for freedom that flies out between all bars.".-Nadine Gordimer
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"The fact that we are all trained to be mothers from infancy on means that we are all trained to devote our lives to men, whether they are our sons or not;that we are all trained to force other women to exemplify the lack of qualities which characterizes the cultural construct of femininity.".-Andrea Dworkin-
"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That is his.".-Oscar Wilde-
"The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.".-Friedrich Nietzsche-
"Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.".-Novalis-
"At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.".-Jean Baudrillard-
"Hope has a good memory, gratitude a bad one.".-Baltasar Gracian-
"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.".-Henry van Dyke-
"Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education.".-Chuang Tzu-
"Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.".-Leo Tolstoy-
"Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.".-Frank Gelett Burgess-
"The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship;it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.".-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
"It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.".-Vince Lombardi-
"Walking is a man's best medicine.".-Hippocrates-
"The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.".-Voltaire-
"A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.".-Lyman Abbott-
"A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.".-Alexander Cockburn-
"Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.".-Lord Alfred Tennyson-
"Truth - An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are l".-Fran Lebowitz-
"Seek simplicity but distrust it.".-Alfred North Whitehead-
"Simplicity in character, in manners, in style;in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.".-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-
"People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.".-Arthur Schopenhauer-
"Topographically the country is magnificent - and terrifying. Why terrifying? Because nowhere else in the world is the divorce between man and nature so complete. Nowhere have I encountered such a dull, monotonous fabric of life as here in America. Here boredom reaches its peak.".-Henry Miller-
"Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.".-Ambrose Bierce-
"I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.".-Mark Twain-
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